To me, writing this blog has been a quest to determine of the meaning of being an "EM pharmacist", a tool to improve my writing and motivation to continue to reading everything and anything.  In the months since we started, Nadia and I have received both praise and criticism that have helped us stay on point, and importantly, helped us frame arguments to establish everything FOAMed as an form of scholarly activity. Many of those [...]

A 35-year-old patient presents to your emergency department with complaints of right upper quadrant abdominal pain and nausea that has persisted for the past three days. He states that he came "straight to the ED after having just stepped off the plane" upon arriving back in the States from a week-long vacation in Mexico. He also states that he consumed quite a few alcoholic beverages on his flight home to help "stave off" some of [...]